What is this guy using?
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I haven't used pitons before, but I'm pretty sure this one isn't standard. It's at about the 6 second mark. I assume he is going to tie it off short, or is he really going to hammer in the full foot of metal? |
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Looks like a tent stake to me. Probably something off Warren Harding's rack; how that ended up in the hands of a distiller... |
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Forget the pin, how's about that hand over hand belay? |
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I want to grow up to climb like that someday, safety is so overrated. Ahhhh, tent stakes and hand over hand belays, the good old days. |
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"...there's no safety net..." |
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Todd Anderson wrote:"...there's no safety net..." TR in backgroundMissed that one the first time through. Thank you!!!!!! |
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I love the full on swing!!! Lol |
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Space age boots, Korean War backpack, and a length of rebar for a piton? |
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Splittin firewood at the summit. Gooooood times. |
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At least they're wearing modern approach shoes... |
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I don't think it is a hand over hand belay. Looks like he is hauling up a pack. |
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It sounds like fun, I want some. Maybe it will make me a mountain man, then I can finally start sharing bivies with other mountain men and slander you hip belayers for your weaknesses and not tying into your belts right. |
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J Q wrote:It sounds like fun, I want some. Maybe it will make me a mountain man, then I can finally start sharing bivies with other mountain men and slander you hip belayers for your weaknesses and not tying into your belts right.This is Mountain Project: just do what the rest of us do- pretend we're as hoss as them and then slander away |
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Jayson Nissen wrote:I don't think it is a hand over hand belay. Looks like he is hauling up a pack.Ya might be right but I think they might take better care with there packs stuffed with hooch and axe. Yer definitely gonna tether that cargo. Now, a simple matter of yer pals safety..... |
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I'll never understand how Hollywood can make spitting wood so romantic. |
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Tin cup is great Colorado whisky for the price! |
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Will drinking this make me want to climb in approach shoes with an external frame pack while belayed with a cotton gymnasium rope tied around my waist? |
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And check out the "hammer"...sort of right out of "The Shawshank Redemption", later there's a glimpse of its "pick end" when it's tied to the pack, sort of ice-axe like! |
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Will drinking this whiskey get me a haircut? |
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I must have it! |
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FWIW it is a pseudo whiskey, i.e. not a craft small batch whiskey but made from distilled spirits bought from MGP: |